Using google custom search /adsense shouldn’t be a headache for newbies as there is already a mod for this all you need do is download the mod from here same for removing help from menu you can just download the remove help from menu mod here, except you wanna do some little customization yourself which is just as easy as installing new mod .
Now to manually remove help and search from smf navigation tab so as to display only your google custom search all you need do is => log in to cpanel /your forum / sources /subs.php and
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